What Has Your Country Ever Done For Us?!

[Phisi]

we gave you the boomerang, the electric drill, the notepad, the SCRAM jet and best of all, spray on skin... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spray-on_skin

 

[Pat8u]

I remember a documentary about australia inventing wifi...

yea I'm ok with just that

 

[enzilewulf]

We ended that big conflict back in the 40's with that guy who had the weird looking mustache...

Your welcome.

(No im not really this smug about WW2. We then had our "Coming back tour" where we went to Vietnam and Korea and fucked up. I know. I am just kidding calm down.)

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

Our wonderful comedy...
That only we get.
...
And Tanks.
We invented the tank.

Plus trains (i think)

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Canada has graced the world with it's presence. You're welcome.

AND the telephone dammit!

And most of the cast of Firefly, so yeah. We're pretty rad.

THANK YOU CANADA!!!!

It would appear the modern world is indebted to you, my weird northern neighbors.

Anyways, the US has produced the first operational aircraft and would've had the first spacecraft had we not been stupid and lazy (hat's off to Russia there, you beat our pants off). Actually, scratch that. America didn't produce the first aircraft, it was a couple of awesome bicycle-shop owners who tried everything a little differently.
We also contributed to ending the world wars a little bit faster, though I think that's more to do with industriousness and manpower than with with brilliant heroism.
Oh, and Jazz. Best thing America has made.

 

[BrailleOperatic]

England gave the world America. So sit down and shut up America.

 

[JustJuust]

south korea created the first MP3 player, and the first phone implemented with MP3 player

 

[McNinja]

Currently? A freaking huge national debt, a default on our loans, the possiblity of becoming a third world country in the next decade if the trend continues, and dumbass morons so mired in partisan politics that they couldn't compromise if their who country and half of the world economy was riding on it. Oh wait.

 

[zehydra]

A lot, apparently. But that wasn't my country now. It would be wrong to say that the United States of 2011 is the same country from 1945, or prior.

Politicians move in and out, voters change, workers change. To say that I had any involvement in the fact that your country has a particular item (many things) that was invented in this land would be a mistake.

 

[jonyboy13]

The Corner Shot

The Uzi

The Arrow (anti missle)
Iron Dome
And many, many more stuff to destroy other stuff with.
Oh, and the DiskOnKey. YOU'RE WELCOME.

(Israel)

 

[Thaluikhain]

Eh...the people who invented the first aeroplane is up for debate, but the Wright brothers were the ones who invented one they got people with money to take seriously.

Oh...Australia came together in 1901 peacefully and without bloodshed, making an entire continent into a single nation. Meaning that's a continents worth of seperate nations whose names and capital cities they don't make you remember at school.

 

[prince_xedar]

NZ gave the world the first person to climb mount everest and the splitting of the atom, which gave you Nuclear power.
Also Pavlova, if you havent tried that shit do it now

 

[Hagi]

We gave you Yachts, and by extention this:

We gave you microscopes, opening the way for modern medicine.

We gave you telescopes, opening the way for our future space colonization.

We gave you corporations, opening the way for modern capitalism. Though in hind-sight we're probably sorry for that.

We also have the world's legal capital city with the International Court of Justice among others where we judge the really bad guys so you guys don't have to worry your pretty little heads about it.

Ow and we're the first to allow same-sex marriage.

So we're basically the reason why you haven't already died of some horrible disease, why your grandchildren may have the luck of being the first space colonists, why you can spend your retirement on a boat and in the meantime we're also dealing with the world's worst war criminals and giving you gay rights. You're welcome by the way.

 

[Joshey Woshey]

It's nice to see that no one in this thread is even the SLIGHTEST bit arrogant.

 

[RevRaptor]

The nuclear age. If you're posting this by the power of the Atom, or if you're as amazed and entertained watching nuclear tests as I am, you have America to thank for it.


Such a shame we had to bring in this age the way we did but oh well.

Oh you did did you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford
the father of nuclear physics was a Kiwi mate.

So? Doesn't matter where he was from. That's the nice thing about America, it has minds from all over the world. It was America that finished the first nuclear bomb, it was America that pioneered the technology needed to harness the power of the atom peacefully, it was America that used the bomb to usher the age in. Doesn't matter if the scientists were German, Kiwi, Austrian, Martian or from the planet Zog. They built it here, they pioneered the tech here, therefore America as a country brought forth the Nuclear age.

Umm Rutherford did most of his work in the UK and Canada he never worked in America. The American's didn't usher in the nuclear age they were just the first to blow some shit up with it. not really something to brag about really.

Is that a hint of jealousy I'm seeing in your text?


It's well accepted by the majority of people interested in such things that the nuclear age came after the two bombings in Japan...which we did. Using our equipment. Built by scientists working in the US. Using American materials. YOU may not like that, but that's just how it is. We weren't in the nuclear age until those two cities got vaporized.

Jealousy? you have got to be kidding, thanks ever so much for dumping large amounts of nuclear waste and starting a cold war that could have wiped out all life on earth.
There's a reason My country banned that shit, it's bloody dangerous just look at Chernobyl and the more recent disasters in Japan. You think your reactors would do any better if the shit hit the fan.

 

[Halceon]

 

[Tanakh]

The American Revolution inspired many future revolutions like the French Revolution.

Fun obscure fact, the french and spaniard armies that fought for US of A in that war were twice as many as the continental army.

But in general I agree with TheNaut131, countries don't do stuff; people in them might. Also find a little annoying the idea of being proud of having been born in X or Y country, it's like being proud of winning the lottery or a coin toss, sure, it might give you a better life but it sure as heck has little to do with anything other than luck.

 

[Number-14]

We gave you oil.

You're welcome.

 

[Saulkar]

We created artificial insulin.